Clothes-line pin.



"No. 820,177. PATENTED MAY 8, 1906. D. T. BRYAN 6n 0. SADLER.

CLOTHES LINE PIN.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 31, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DEMPSEY T. BRYAN AND OCTAVIUS SADLER, OF ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA.

CLOTHES-LINE PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1906.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DEMPsEY T. BRYAN and OOTAVIUS SADLER, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Rocky Mount, in the county of Edgecombeand State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Clothes-Line Pins, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to improvements in clothes-line pins, and pertainsparticularly to those made of s ring-wire.

The object 0 our invention is to provide a device of this character inwhich the same is made of a single piece of wire so bent that each jawis made with double wires and the free ends of the wires bent around acoil, so that they cannot ossibly come in contact with garments, an thuscannot possibly tear or injure the same.

Another object of our invention is to provide a more simple, cheap, andeffective in of this character which is made of rustl dss material andwhich is adapted to adjust itself to any size wire or rope.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective vlew of ourimproved pin applied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the pin.Fig. 3 is a side elevation of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an edge view.

Referring now to the drawings, 1 re resents a single piece of wire,which is preferab y of the galvanized form, which prevents rusting, andthus prevents any injury to the clothes. The said wire is formedintermediateits ends with a coil 2, which, as shown, is formed with twoconvolutions; but it is understood that the same could be made with anydesired number of convolutions. The ends 2 and 3, as shown, start fromthe outside of the coil, leaving that portion of the coil between theends of a single coil of wire. The said ends extend downward and arecrossed at 4 and formed with curved depressions 5 and 6, the psilrposeof which will be hereinafter more ly described. The said ends 2' and 3,as shown, are each turned outward or in opposite directions and bentupward at 7 and 8 and form two interlocking clam ing-loops, as isclearly shown in Fig. 2. T e said upwardly-extending portions 7 and 8are provided with curved portions 9 and 10 to correspond with thedepressions 5 and 6 and are oppositely arranged. The lower ends of the camping-loops diverge and form an open mouth, so that the pin can bereadily placed over the line.

The upper ends of the upwardly-extending portions 7 and 8 extend on theoutside of the portions 2 and 3 and are bent at 11 and 12 around thelower single wire of the coil, thus formin the two distinct interlockingloops, which ave their free ends secured to the coils and said loopsformin smooth clampingsurfaces, and the bent ends 11 and 12 are sopositioned that they cannot possibly at any time enga e the garment orclothes clamped upon the ine. The interlocking of the wire forming thespring-jaws prevents the aws from at any time being sprun or bent out oftheir crossed relation, and sai jaws are at all times in a positionto'receive and clamp the wire or line with the clothes thereon.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A pin of the character described, comprising a single piece of wireformed into a coil, and the ends of the wire formed lnto loops andhaving ends of the wire forming the 100 s wound around the coil and onearm of one oop passing between the arms of the other 100 2. A pm of thecharacter described, comprising a single piece ,of wire having a colformed in the center, and ends formed into loops, the coil between theends formln the loops bein of a sin le coil of wire, an the free ends 0the wire orming the loops wound around a single portion of the coil, onearm of one of the loops passing between the arms of the other loop.

3. A pin of the character described, comrising a single piece of wirehaving a 0011 ormed in the center, and the ends formed into loops havingtheir outer ends diverging, one arm of each loop passing between thearms of the other loop.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twoWitnesses.

DEMPSEY T. BRYAN. OCTAVIUS SADLER.

Witnesses:

VANN. E. STATON, HERVEY W. PARHAM.

